I'm a modern combatives, to use a term as good as any, advocate. Because sometimes the fight will be what it will be despite your best intentions, and things will require a bit of striking, breaking, stabbing, and other techniques before you can employ the shooting ones, the running ones, etc, assuming they're still necessary at that point.

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